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Mu waves, also known as mu rhythms, comb or wicket rhythms, arciform rhythms, or sensorimotor rhythms, are synchronized patterns of electrical activity involving large numbers of neurons, probably of the pyramidal type, in the part of the brain that controls voluntary movement. person suppresses mu wave patterns when he or she performs a motor action or, with practice, when he or she visualizes performing a motor action. This suppression is called desynchronization of the wave because EEG wave forms are caused by large numbers of neurons firing in synchrony.
A mechanical wave is a disturbance that pulsates through some form of medium: a solid, a liquid, or a gas, carrying the original, initiating energy from one place to another.There are three types of mechanical waves: transverse, longitudinal, and boundary.or a transverse waves, the amplitude is the distance that the wave displaces the medium. The number of waves passing through the medium over time is the waveâs frequency. The higher the frequency of a mechanical wave, the greater the energy it transmits.